$300 is the rack price on new 10-22's??

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I stopped at the LGS a few days back hoping to find a traded in 10-22 to replace the melted one. Literally NOTHING used on the rack but 5-6 various flavor/color scheme 10-22's priced from $299-370(ish).
Not for my needs. I'll pull something out of hiding and use what I already have. The one that melted cost $169 including tax.
 

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I bought one last summer, in a pawn shop, with a walnut stock, older and in very good shape for $265 out the door. Apparently the new ones are in the $300 or more range.
 

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I was in the local Scheels on Monday and their price on a new 10/22 carbine with the wood stock was $299 and they had 1 Deluxe Sporter for $399.
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Prices sure have gone crazy on them. I got the SS, threaded, polymer stock, takedown version for just over $300 about 4 years ago. I'm seeing the same model for $600ish today when I look.
 

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Not long after the pandemic started it seems 10/22 prices shot up to MSRP ( or more ) about everywhere …. Especially on Gun Broker.

Even basic stock birch or polymer stocked rifles are bringing close to $300 USED.

Heck, a local pawn shop musta bought a collection of Remington Model 77s and Nylon 66s. They priced the most common brown ones at $650 and a real nice 66 in black and chrome at $900. I think they're all gone except the black and chrome one.
 

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My pair of 10/22 AW's cost me approx. $165 each. Thinking I was making about 20 bucks an hour when I bought them.
I just heard the 2023 pay scale for a job I used to do at a place I used to work. My level there now, would have me making about 40. About a days pay then & now for a 10/22.
 

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I paid over $12 for an ordinary roast beef sandwich in a town that houses very rich people... And, I can't seem to get outta my local Burger King for less than $11 for a Whopper and small fries.... (no drink).

As long as we PAY the money, the prices will continue to rise.... I try my best to buy only what I really need (and that doesn't include guns or ammo anymore).

Ans.: YES.... $300+

J.
 

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I guess the question is, what hasn't skyrocketed in price? Anything with labor and raw materials of a firearm, along with increased costs just to do business would increase things substantially. Seems like we are all adjusting just as planned.
 

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Wow! Way back when I was a young hippie gun guy, I bought my first firearm, a used Ruger 10-22 in perfect condition from a locksmith that got it for his daughter, but she didn't take to the shooting sports and I bought the little rifle for $50 cash and carry including two of the very hard to find extra 10 rd magazines! 10-22s were everywhere, new and used and cheap! Of course, gas was .22 cents a gallon with green stamps and McDonalds was priced well below .25 cents for most everything... Remington Nylon 66s were selling for about $50 bucks new! Remington "Golden Bullets" 22 ammo was $5 bucks a brick (for years!)... I bought a VW hippie van for under $1,200. new (needed to haul around the newly invented and VERY friendly hippie girls!) The power of the US dollar has shrunk spectacularly during my years on the planet...
 

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You did get a screaming deal on that gun then, that's 10-15 year old pricing.

Otherwise, there might be a slight difference in this country in many categories, than there was 4 years ago...ya think?
 

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I don't know, a 10/22, even with they way they're built today, $300 doesn't sound that bad, considering. It's still one of the most popular and most modified .22 rifles out there, I'm surprised it's not a little more actually.

I do miss the ones with metal parts though.
 
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Yeah, $300 doesn't buy much in the firearms market anymore. A 10-22 for $300 seems about right nowadays. The LGS here only has 2 guns at $300 or less: a used plain barrel Winchester 1200 pump at $300. Ruger Wranglers for $219.
 
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A local shop has a new 10/22 carbine with $275.00 on the tag. It's been sitting there for a long time, but it's really not out of line with what most places around here have them priced at.
 
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